The romance of this scene... The other guys helping him out like schoolboys & then standing there in a line so adorably. Charlie intent on winning back Zoe’s heart...
*Charlie* : I took off my coat to show my love for Zoey. *Josh, less than 2 minutes later* : takes off his coat to put it on Donna's shoulders. I mean, it's r i g h t t h e r e.
Absolutely. There's no coincidence in that gesture. That's what I love about TWW - subtlety. Things don't need to be shown on screen literally to be understood. That's how art works, using different ways to convey the meaning.
I've binge watched this show seriously 7 times on Netflix and every single time Josh stops mid sentence and say " ...............You look AMAZING " with that total shocked face, I smile and start crying at the same time. THAT is how a woman wants to be noticed by a guy, that look.
@@chriskelly3481 he's part of the world that keeps moving off screen. If he, Ed, Larry, Joey Lucas, and all the others weren't so well written, the world would feel so small.
I watched this episode last night and this scene made me melt. When he just stops in the middle of telling her off to tell her she looks amazing. It's so perfect. Brad and Janel are great. And the four guys are all such children in the background it really makes me laugh.
So much of the great writing of this show was the plausible way that whole untold episodes of stories existed outside of what we got to see. When Margaret was pregnant, the deal with Joey Lucas and that twerp she was in the hotel room with, Leo and Annabeth, and just this throw away line from Toby ... 'This is what I've been *telling* you' ... I just love the idea that somewhere we didn't ever get to see but can so easily imagine, Toby and Charlie bonded late at night in a bar over how much Charlie dislikes the French boy wonder.... kinda like that scene when they played pool.
I just love them so damn much. I think this is my favorite scene although that is probably surpassed by the Gaza arc I just watched. Whenever Josh is showing his feelings and obvious pure love for Donna, it's so beautiful. And Brad plays it so well.
They actually apportion Donnas smiles throughout the show really frugally... So the love we ALL feel for her is mostly SANS-smile. But when they choose to drop it on the show?!?!... Look out!... Stunning.
Almost 20 years after this first aired (back then the UK for the episodes several months after they were shown in the US) this still gives me warm tingles every time he says "you look amazing" and she responds with that smile that was only ever for Josh. And then I remember it took another THREE years to get their act together. Even her being blown up didn't stop them being idiots. Even when their colleagues called them out. Even when Donna's boyfriends (Colin and Cliff) both suggest it to Josh, and Donna tells Amy (at that time seeing Josh) that she doesn't get him. CJ should have kept her mouth shut though. She guilt tripped Donna into going on the CODEL and that almost killed her.
Wasent there an episcode where Donna gets seriolous injured and Josh is in her hospitable room looking at her and having to face for the first time how much she meens to him.
It's so hard for a man to tell a lady how amazing she looks when she is too busy to hear it. Hitch said "Why does it have to be so Got Damn Hard?" God said "Be Still..." Ladies be still so we could tell you how beautiful you are... please.
I feel a little bit of love for Will for having to 'replace' Sam and be a NERD-nerd... always have. The new kid is always hated. And who has never been the new kid?
Had to happen that way. Donna was indispensable to Josh, but he had no way of both keeping Donna and promoting her as he should have. Donna needed to establish herself, her career, and her confidence in politics while not under Josh's wing. Doing all of that and then reuniting them as colleagues for the general election for the romance to final boil over was absolutely the most realistic thing to do with the arc. Trying to do a romance between these two in any other way would have been a terrible idea fraught with inappropriate power dynamics, and honestly a bit of sleaze. Josh had been a perfect, albeit corky, gentleman boss and friend. You can't tarnish that just to reach the romance pinnacle sooner.
